I’m level 82 and I run a bulwark build with poison trampleslide. The damage is there and the tankiness is there…sometimes.
I seem to get one shot randomly though and when it happens several times it starts to get very annoying. I don’t understand how I get one shot so easily when I have a 69% barrier bonus and 72% DR when injured. 5.1k health and 6.7k armor.
Can anyone clue me in on what I’m doing wrong?
Your armor/reductions/life are very low compared to the mobs you’re fighting. The % numbers you see are relative to a level 82 (your level) mob, but you’re fighting level 113+ mobs, which can absolutely 1-shot you.
There are many more in-depth explanations - here is one:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DKCUdYIrkws&feature=youtu.be
Also, how did you figure your 72% DR when injured? Are your accounting for diminishing returns of the inverse multiplicativity of DR? Are you always injured (<35%) before getting hit?
Thanks for the link. I watched most of it and it all seems to boil down to…get my levels up and get more life.
DR while injured is a death sentence it seems. A lot of people are complaining about being one-shot (DR while injured would never proc). How about moving to something like DR while fortified?
Looks like I’ll need to switch to something like that perhaps. I am using the low life bulwark build though. However as you said it doesn’t seem to prevent a 1 shot when pushing through nm dungeons.
Its hard to know what to build for when you dont know what works and what doesnt.
Jumping in here to say i’m amazed you are running NM dungeons over level 60 and you are only level 82.
Do you have a link to your build please?
Here ya go. I really love the build. It’s quite the fireworks show and you are constantly pressing buttons, dashing around and causing total mayhem.
Ah it wont let me post the link. Search for AceofSpades on mobalytics. Its the subterranean barber.
The highest I’ve gone is 66. I think I could do 70 with the right affixes.
If you get one-shot you never benefit from DR while injured as it only proc when under 20% hp…
Injured procs when under 35% life.
For many Bulwark builds, the idea is to ALWAYS be injured, that way you gain the benefit of DR while injured. ‘DR while injured’ is typically a much larger stat than normal DR, which is why it works (just not for a lev 82 in a NM 60+ it seems).
Btw I get my DR while injured stat from the pulldown menu on the left of the character screen.
I have 13k health as a tornado wolf. I still get OHKO from corpse bow at NMD 65. My advise is to look out for specific enemy or monster affixes.
For Low Life to work, you need to stack hard other reductions besides DR while Injured. The one stat alone doesn’t do it, even for 60s dungeons it’s not enough. Especially not if you are not injured at all. With 36% HP your defense stats are not yet active and you are most likely instant dead from any source. Furthermore, the stat triggers with a short delay, so you can also die by a machine gun hail of Quillrats, although you are certainly for some milliseconds in the Injured range.
In addition to the DR while Injured, you should stack as many other DR stats and armor as possible on Helm, Chest, Pants, Shoes, and possibly Neck and Offhand. If you skill 5/5 Bulwark, 60% barrier generation is the hard cap.
On the other hand, monster types and affixes also play a role. Ghosts and skeletons should be avoided if possible, or basically ranged damage. The correct dungeons I play with my 90 Druid easily on 85-86, possibly even higher, because I march through there deathless. In the wrong dungeons (with good affixes) I even die 2-3 times in a 73 dungeon. In addition, I must mention that I do not play low life, but high speed and can therefore also kite a lot and manually dodging. My gear also has significant deficiencies in the defensive stats. I am currently crafting some shoes and pants, which together grant +1000 armor and +30 perma DR.
i mean kinda normal that mobs one shot you at nm 62+ at that lvl.
would be kinda sad otherwise the game’s already waaaaay too easy.
Lmao Op is clearly trolling.
Why would you push anything below L100.
4-5 mob level above player level is the metric for sub 100. All that matters is hitting 100. Then you push the higher NMD.
I just did Tier 100 deathless in 5 Minutes on my 94 Bulwark 
It’s a great build. I actually switched to the Shred build on D4 builds. Holy crap its hot garbage! Idk if im doing something wrong but there’s no comparison to my trampleslide bulwark build.
I did everything like the build said with gear/aspects and paragon but I couldnt even clear a NM 30 with it. Kinda sad now that I’m lvl 88. Guess I’ll have to endure the tedium of respeccing my paragon board and skills back to bulwark.